{"id":431,"date":"2014-10-27T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T23:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=431"},"modified":"2014-10-27T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T23:01:26","slug":"complaint-to-tv3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Complaint to TV3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tova\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Tova Obrien<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kia ora,<\/p>\n

I have written a formal complaint to TV3 concerning a recent\u00a0 news article claiming “Hone Harawira Hires Sex Offenders” by Tova Obrien.<\/p>\n

I particularly take umbrage at the slur of this article portraying Hone as a person who actively seeks to employ and support the practice of sex offenders.\u00a0 To date one person has been \u00a0formally charged\u00a0 with sex offences.\u00a0 This same offender was employed by The Northland Age, Te Hiku Media\u00a0 as an advertising sales manager.\u00a0 He was also an active member in his church- no one knew at the time that sexual abuse charges were to eventually appear against him.\u00a0 The courts found him guilty after a trial. Nobody should blame the employers or the church for his behaviour.<\/p>\n

It was poor taste of\u00a0 TV3 listing Hone\u2019s former parliamentary staff names on public display to the whole country- there was no blurring of names to cover the innocence and decent lives of other staff members.\u00a0 It was a breach of privacy.\u00a0 Former staff are entitled to their privacy. Several staff have successful careers and some are key community advocates for people wanting to help themselves. .<\/p>\n

The reporter Ms Obrien showed poor journalism practice ringing Hone at home and recording his non acquiescence to an interview as a “response” to any questions she had not posed. This is not an approved level of journalism, it is a charade of appearing to speak to Hone without actually doing so.\u00a0 Before the election, she\u00a0 literally chased Hone \u00a0into Kaitaia Airport with a camera person within\u00a0 close physical proximity\u00a0taunting him to answer wild questions from left field.\u00a0 Hone had to go into the back room of the airport to escape her . On a rugby field you would push someone away who came that close in your personal space.\u00a0 Ms Obrien has a fixation with\u00a0 Hone and needs to look at her own motives. If she feels scorned, she should have talked decently to Hone as a human being. Hone has many interviews with many media outlets and journalists.<\/p>\n

I have asked for\u00a0 formal apology from TV 3 on air and in print throughout the country.\u00a0I would also like Media Works to stop journalists sitting outside our home and taking photos.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know who they are , if they are reporters or assassins.\u00a0 When the media rark up inflammatory stories, we become\u00a0 vulnerable to all kinds of nutcases who threaten to hurt our home , our family and workspace.\u00a0 The main thing to remember, if people want to know anything , Hone will front .\u00a0 It may not be what you want to hear, but he will front up.<\/p>\n

Re the allegation of sexual abuse concerning our neighbour, Ms Obrien is obliged to present the facts , she is not the judge , does she consider the impact of her guilty sentence on a person’s family and children who is not yet tried before the courts?\u00a0 The victim, the accused and the community is entitled to a court process if the charges hold up.<\/p>\n

TV3 should restrain Tova Obrien’s style of malice and report the news.\u00a0 She is not welcome to interview Hone or take any footage of any members of my family.\u00a0 She has joined the dirty ranks of Slater\u00a0 and \u00a0Ede and her wages are\u00a0 paid by taxpayers money. Obrien\u2019s statement will not go unchallenged, so that in time they be misconstrued as truth.<\/p>\n

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Hilda Halkyard-Harawira<\/strong>,<\/div>\n
Waimanoni<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0Tova Obrien Kia ora, I have written a formal complaint to TV3 concerning a recent\u00a0 news article claiming “Hone Harawira Hires Sex Offenders” by Tova Obrien. I particularly take umbrage at the slur of this article portraying Hone as a person who actively seeks to employ and support the practice of sex offenders.\u00a0 To date […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}